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102 votes
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Man unable to interact with any of his smart devices for a week after delivery driver accuses him of being racist
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I filed a complaint against Amazon to the US Federal Trade Commission
Mods: I put this in Tech because Amazon is a tech company, if this is the wrong group I apologize. For the last several purchases I have made through Amazon, not only has the advertised "expected...
Mods: I put this in Tech because Amazon is a tech company, if this is the wrong group I apologize.
For the last several purchases I have made through Amazon, not only has the advertised "expected delivery date" been wrong, Amazon hasn't even shipped the product by the delivery date. The day I expect an order to arrive, I get a notice from Amazon saying it's "running late" and the new expected delivery date is anywhere from 4 to 10 days away.
This is on top of the fact that I have Amazon Prime. Prime eligible meant "it would be delivered within two days" for the better part of a decade. They slowly transitioned away from that to "two days delivery after it ships," and now it seems like half of everything takes 5-8 days to deliver, even with Prime.
Anyway, the reason I reported them to the FTC because I believe they are advertising misleading or downright incorrect delivery times in hopes of winning your business over a competitor who is honest about their delivery times. If I want a monitor and Best Buy has it for $200 with 3-5 day shipping, and Amazon advertises it being delivered on day 3, I'm probably going to go with Amazon if I'm in urgent need of a monitor. But then the third day rolls around and Amazon indicates "oh, well, it's probably going to be 3-4 more days." If I had known that, I would have just gone with Best Buy, where I know it would have at least been delivered in 5 days; now I'm stuck waiting a week for Amazon.
I don't even know if this is something the FTC cares about. But it should. I encourage everyone to report this if they've encountered the same issue.
80 votes -
Elizabeth Warren proposes breaking up Amazon, Google, and Facebook
48 votes -
US Federal Trade Commission accuses Amazon of illegally protecting monopoly in online retail
42 votes -
Refund fraud schemes promoted on TikTok, Telegram are costing Amazon and other retailers billions of dollars
37 votes -
Amazon will remove the Parler site from AWS
35 votes -
Looking to cancel Amazon Prime for ethical reasons (and quality decline) - what are my alternatives for online shopping?
For the past few years, I've grown more and more uneasy with Amazon's business practices. I think it's time to move on. Not to mention the declining quality in products since international...
For the past few years, I've grown more and more uneasy with Amazon's business practices. I think it's time to move on. Not to mention the declining quality in products since international shippers were added (as discussed in the podcast Reply All).
I'm addicted to the convenience of 2 day shipping, even though we use Amazon less and less, I like knowing I have that option.
I've been considering a Costco membership instead - how does their online shopping and shipping times/prices compare?
I've also considered using Jet more but I don't know much about their ethics, does anyone?
Open to other alternatives and discussion about business ethics here.
33 votes -
Amazon Ring cameras were used to spy on customers
32 votes -
Amazon shared Ring security camera and video doorbell footage with police without a warrant
31 votes -
Amazon lobbyists to be barred from European parliament
30 votes -
Amazon devices in the US will automatically join the Amazon Sidewalk mesh network and start sharing internet with neighbors on June 10th, unless opted out
30 votes -
A simple plan to dissolve Facebook, Google, and Amazon, from the man who coined the term "net neutrality"
30 votes -
Amazon grows to over 750,000 robots as world's second-largest private employer replaces over 100,000 humans
29 votes -
Amazon seeks to evade EU regulations by claiming it isn't a Very Large Online Platform
29 votes -
Why we don’t recommend Ring cameras: They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes
29 votes -
Engineers say 'no thanks' to Silicon Valley recruiters, citing ethical concerns
29 votes -
Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs
28 votes -
AWS eIP price change. What's your plan?
28 votes -
What exactly are these “Amazon FC Ambassadors” on Twitter, how many of them are there, and are they actually real people?
28 votes -
Amazon pulls out of planned New York City campus
28 votes -
Leaving Amazon - Tim Bray (former VP) on whistleblowers, climate strikes, sexism, and racism at Amazon
27 votes -
The Kindle is fine. It could’ve been much more than that.
27 votes -
Netflix, YouTube, Amazon and Apple accused of GDPR breach
27 votes -
Charity for profit: Brandfluence/Softgiving, the marketing agency behind some of Twitch's most successful fundraising streams quietly collected 42% of donations
26 votes -
In US lawsuit, ex-Amazon AI exec claims she was asked to ignore IP law
25 votes -
Anyone else having a bad day because of the AWS us-east-1 outage?
25 votes -
"Amazon's Choice" is given to products automatically and doesn't indicate quality - Many have troubling product defects and warnings, as well as review manipulation
25 votes -
Amazon eliminates monthly bonuses and stock grants after minimum wage increase
25 votes -
Thousands of Zoom cloud recordings have been exposed on the web because of the way Zoom names its recordings in unprotected AWS buckets
24 votes -
Amazon has too many ways of watching you now
23 votes -
A West Virginia judge largely denied Amazon's motion to dismiss lawsuit over selling a spycam disguised as a bathroom hook
22 votes -
Amazon is acquiring iRobot
21 votes -
Some Amazon reviews are too good to be believed. They're paid for.
21 votes -
Amazon selects New York City and Northern Virginia for new HQ2 locations
20 votes -
Amazon plans to move completely off Oracle software by early 2020
20 votes -
Yelp has a wall of shame for businesses caught paying for fake reviews
19 votes -
Amazon asked Apple to remove an app that spots fake reviews, and Apple agreed
19 votes -
Amazon changed its search system to boost more-profitable listings, including its own brands
19 votes -
Goodbye Big Five: Kashmir Hill tried to block each of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from her life for a week. To end the experiment, she tried to block all five at once.
19 votes -
Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads, and they seem to be working
19 votes -
Leaked Amazon memo warns the company is running out of people to hire. Unions might not be the tech giant’s biggest labor threat.
18 votes -
Amazon's Twitter army was handpicked for "great sense of humor" leaked document reveals
18 votes -
US House Democrats say Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, Apple enjoy ‘monopoly power’ and recommend big changes
18 votes -
Amazon deletes 20,000 product reviews written by seven of its top ten UK reviewers after a Financial Times investigation found they were written for profit
18 votes -
switching.software: Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software
18 votes -
Why Amazon knows so much about you
18 votes -
Everything cops say about Amazon's Ring is scripted or approved by Ring
18 votes -
Ring is using its customers’ doorbell camera video for ads. It says it's allowed to
18 votes -
Amazon pulls ads from Bloomberg, and Apple did not invite Bloomberg to its Oct. 30 event—both allegedly over China hacking story
18 votes